Shaving-brush handle.



. 90,622. PATENTED MAY 23, 1905.

J. L. ERSKINE.

SHAVING BRUSH HANDLE:

APPLICATION FILED 110130, 1904.

IIVVENTOR I I hmea lowefiukine v ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES Patented. May 23, 1905.

JAMES LOWE ERSKINE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHAVlNG-BRUSH HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 790,622, dated May 23, 1905. Application file l November 30, 1904. Serial No. 234,867.

To all whom, it may concern:

' Be it known that I, JAMEs Lown ERSKINE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of l the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn,

- of manufacture is not materially increased over that of the ordinary one-piece handle.

A further purpose of theinvention is to provide a handle for shaving-brushes wherein the bristles may be expeditiously and conveniently placed in position and secured in the usual manner, and wherein, further, the bristles will be so clamped at a point beyond their actual socket as to effectually prevent the bristles from leaving the handle even under severe usage. The invention consists in the novel con struction and combination of the several parts,

as will be hereinafter fully set forth,and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through the handle of a shaving-brush, the bristles being shown in' side elevation; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the ferrule used in'connection with the handle.

The handle A is in one piece and is provided with the usual straight socket 10, which receives the butt 11 of a bunch of bristles 12, the said butt being glued or cemented in the said socket 10 in the customary way; but the exterior of the handle at the terminal of its socket end is reduced in diameter and is exteriorly threaded, as is shown at 13 in Fig. l, in order to receive a ferrule B, preferably made of metal, which ferrule is provided with interior threads 15, adapted to mate the threads 14 on the handle.

The outer end 16 of the ferrule B is drawn inward or is of slightly lesser diameter than the diameter of the socket 10, and in the drawings this contracted end portion 16 of the ferrule is provided with an outer annular cupflange 17 which may be utilized to catch drippings from the bristles when the brush is being worked; but such cup-flange 17 is not actually needed and constitutes no portion of the invention.

;,/ The main feature of the invention lies in the ferrule B, having the contracted outer portion 16, so that when the bunch of bristles 12 has been passed in any approved manner through the ferrule B and the bristles are cemented in the socket 10 the ferrule is then screwed on the reduced threaded portion of the handle, causing the reduced portion 16 of the ferrule to have such clamping engagement with the bunch of bristles 12 at a point beyond the socket 10 as to render the said bristles more compact than ordinarily in a single-piece handle, and by this construction the socket or bristle receiving portion of the handle performs the same function that a conical socket would perform in a two-piece handle.

.I desire it to be understood that before the ferrule B is screwed upon the handle A a cement of any suitable description may be applied to the threaded portions of one or the other of the parts, so that after the ferrule has been" fixed on the handle A it will be virtually a permanent portion of the handle.

1. As an improved article of manufacture,

a handle for shaving-brushes provided with a straight socket adapted to receive the butt of a bunch of bristles, and a ferrule at the socket portion of the handle extending beyond the socket, which ferrule has its outer end of less diameter than the diameter of the socket of the handle.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a handle for shaving-brushes provided with a straight socket adapted to receive the butt of a bunch of bristles, a ferrule at the socket portion of the handle extending beyond the socket, which ferrule has its outer end of less diameter than the diameter of the socket of the handle, and means for securing the ferrule exclusively to the exterior of the handle.

3. As an improved article of manufacture, a handle for shaving-brushes provided with a straight socket adapted to receive the butt of a bunch of bristles, the exterior of the handle at its socket end being threaded, and an interiorly-threaded ferrule adapted to be screwed upon the threaded portion of the said handle, the ferrule having an inwardly inclined or contraeted outer edge of lesser diameter than the diameter of the socket in the handle, which contraeted edge of the ferrule is located over the said socket beyond the socket end of the handle and is adapted for compressing engagement with the bristles secured in the socket oi the handle.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES LOWE ERSKINE.

Witnesses:

JNo. M. Rrr'run, J. FRED. ACKER. 

